The head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Stephanie Pope, met the chairman of Air India on Monday in India, two sources said, as the companies seek to find the cause of last week's fatal crash involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The meeting comes in the aftermath of the deadly crash of Air India Flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, in Ahmedabad last week.

European aeroplane manufacturer Airbus announced Saudi and Polish orders for more than 100 aircraft at the Paris Air Show on Monday while US rival Boeing f

Air India had hiked the insurance cover on the ill-fated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft from Rs 750 crore to Rs 850 crore following an engine replacement in April this year, Times of India reported citing people familiar with the matter. The total claims from the plane crash are expected to exceed Rs 1,500 crore, the report added.

Air India plane crash investigators find the first of the "black boxes" from the Boeing 787-8 that slammed into buildings, killing all but one of the 242 people on board.